Healsoattended a swank fete atthe Capital HiltonHotel where his hosts, thebusinessmogulTedTurnerandformerSenatorSamNunn, praised him forclosingamajornuclear testsite.
But one major landmark of the conflict still stands in the northern capital -- the infamous Hoa Lo prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by the American prisoners of war held there.
When ITT Defense is spun off from its corporate parent to become Exelis in a few weeks, its executives will be able to look down the hill from their offices in Fairfax County to see the headquarters of Capital One, Gannett, Hilton Hotels and Sunrise Senior Living.
And because Choice is a franchisor, there's precious little of its own cash going into all this: The company's 70% return on invested capital is several times that of Hilton and Marriott.